Ida Lupino in a nicely expressionist frame from Nicholas Ray's 1952 On Dangerous Ground, which just played yesterday as part of NYC treasure Film Forum's Ray retrospective, which is ongoing…
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...and I love this spot in Paris, with its lovely view of Notre Dame's flying buttresses, which today is little changed from when this shot was made for Marcel Carné's…
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So I see that the next couple of Criterion Blu-rays will be Kurosawa's 1980 Kagemusha and Tati's 1967 Playtime. Jesus, I really wish these guys would stop wasting the high-def…
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Sure, it's been a slow news week, but that doesn't mean that the standard lunacy of the internets has waned. Indeed, in some respects it's reached new heights, as in…
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Ah, the good old Kuleshov effect. Fred Astaire in The Towering Inferno. The new Fox Blu-ray of this quite 1974 magnificent kitsch fest is a very lovely thing indeed. For…
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"...are you the ONLY movie blogger who's NOT going to Comic Con, Glenn?"Probably not, but thanks for asking, Franco Nero and David Hess.The original idea was to run the reverse…
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